Wendigo (Hannibal TV Series)

The Stag appears to Will Graham as a fully grown bull American elk, with between 6-8 tines on its antlers. To coincide with the symbolism of the Minnesota Shrike as well as the crows pecking at the corpse impaled on a stag's head, the Stag is adorned with broad plumage, which covers the majority of its body.

While it is only a hallucination, it bears similar qualities to a mythological Wendigo, which is said in Algonquian culture to be a half-man-half-beast monster associated with psychosis and cannibalism. The comparison is especially strong later on in the series when the Stag takes the very shape of Hannibal Lecter as the Wendigo in Will's hallucinations.

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The Stag appears to Will Graham as a fully grown bull American elk, with between 6-8 tines on its antlers. To coincide with the symbolism of the Minnesota Shrike as well as the crows pecking at the corpse impaled on a stag's head, the Stag is adorned with broad plumage, which covers the majority of its body.

While it is only a hallucination, it bears similar qualities to a mythological Wendigo, which is said in Algonquian culture to be a half-man-half-beast monster associated with psychosis and cannibalism. The comparison is especially strong later on in the series when the Stag takes the very shape of Hannibal Lecter as the Wendigo in Will's hallucinations.

Subject ID: 65124

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